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5.12.26
Consumer Protection Update: Insights into the First Year of the Trump-Vance FTC
In its first year under the Trump-Vance administration, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has aggressively enforced consumer protection and privacy laws and initiated new rulemakings. Although the new rulemaking activity is somewhat surprising in a Republican administration, the FTC has expressed its intent to conduct a more rigorous economic analysis of the effects of any new regulations. Based on the FTC’s activity over the past year, we have identified the issues below as top FTC priorities and provided takeaways for companies to help steer clear of regulatory scrutiny.
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1.29.26
All Eyes on AI: Regulatory, Litigation, and Transactional Developments - Q3/Q4 2025
Wilson Sonsini’s All Eyes on AI: Regulatory, Litigation, and Transactional Developments closely follows the evolving regulatory landscape for artificial intelligence (AI) in the U.S., new EU regulations for AI, international developments, litigation, recent deals highlights, firm publications, and other AI and machine learning highlights. This latest Q3/Q4 2025 edition features:
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9.09.25
All Eyes on AI: Regulatory, Litigation, and Transactional Developments - Q2 2025
The latest edition of All Eyes on AI addresses the White House’s AI Action Plan, the USPTO’s plan to accelerate patent review, the EC’s details of the EU AI Act for GPAI requirements, and the Japanese market’s study on generative AI markets.
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7.30.25
CPPA Approves New CCPA Regulations on AI, Cybersecurity, and Risk Governance, and Advances Updated Data Broker Regulations
On July 24, 2025, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) Board voted to approve a long-awaited rulemaking package imposing substantial new compliance obligations on businesses subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The package contains finalized rules on AI-related, automated decision-making technologies (ADMT), cybersecurity audits, and risk assessments, as well as updates to existing CCPA regulations. These regulations will impact a broad swath of businesses handling personal information of California residents.
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7.14.25
New York Requires Disclosures for Personalized Pricing
In May 2025, New York State Governor Hochul signed Part X of New York’s annual budget, titled, “Personalized Pricing Transparency and Anti-Discrimination.” Part X, which took effect on July 8, 2025, sets disclosure requirements for the use of algorithmic pricing and prohibits the use of certain consumer data to set prices.
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5.08.25
CPPA Board Opens Draft Regulations for Public Comment
On May 1, 2025, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) Board met again to discuss updates to the latest draft California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) regulations related to automated decision-making technology (ADMT), cybersecurity audits, risk assessments, and an assortment of other updates to existing regulations. These latest updates come after the CPPA first released draft regulations on these topics in July 2024 and initiated the formal rulemaking in November 2024, as analyzed in a prior alert. In April 2025, the Board continued to grapple with public concerns and received hundreds of public comments on the prior draft regulations, an analysis of which can be found in this recent client alert. At the CPPA meeting last week, CPPA staff proposed significant changes to the prior draft, on which the Board provided more feedback and agreed to open the regulations for public comment as soon as this week and closing June 2, 2025.
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4.28.25
FTC Files Consumer Protection Complaint Against Uber for Deceptive Billing and Cancellation Practices
On April 21, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it had filed a complaint against Uber Technologies, Inc. and Uber USA LLC (collectively, Uber), a rideshare and delivery company. Among other things, the FTC alleges in its complaint that Uber violated Section 5 of the FTC Act and the Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act (ROSCA) by charging consumers for its Uber One subscription service without their consent and making it difficult for users to cancel the service despite its “cancel anytime” promises.